STUDENT NABBED FOR ROBBERY, ATTEMPTED RAPE (PAGE 29)

A 19-year-old student of the National Engineering College, Takoradi, Isaac Annan, has been arrested by the Takoradi Central Police for attacking a resident of Anaji at gunpoint. He is also alleged to have tied and blindfolded his victim, stripped her naked and was about to rape her after robbing her when he realised that the lady was in her period.
He allegedly made away with her laptop, a digital camera and mobile phone. It was when he was selling the items that the buyer saw a photograph of somebody he knew on the computer. When he later contacted the person whose photograph he saw, he told the buyer that the items were stolen from her sister who had come to visit at the weekend, at Anaji No. 9, and that her sister, who is a nurse had left for work.
She said she was in the room when a masked young man entered and at gunpoint asked her to bring all the money in the house.
The victim said when she told the intruder that she had no money and that she had just arrived on a visit, he pulled out a rope, tied her hands and blindfolded her with cellotape. After that the victim said the suspect searched every corner of the room for money.
She said after a fruitless search, the suspect came back and removed all her cloths in an attempt to rape her.
“I could not see anything since I was blindedfolded. Just then there was a knock at the gate and the suspect quickly collected the items and runaway, leaving some of his cloths behind.”
According to the police, when they got to the scene, the young man had left his dress and snickers, which he had removed in his attempt to rape the woman.
According to the Regional Public Relations Officer, Inspector Olivia Adiku, the one the suspect sent the items to led the police to the house of Annan,the suspect, who claimed the gun he used was sold to him by a man in Kumasi.
When the police further searched the room of the suspect they found a gun, four live bullets and the cellotape he used to blindfold the woman.
She said Annan said he was introduced to the man by his school mate whose name he mentioned as Mohammed Bill, a Burkinabe national, who led him to the man’s residence in Kumasi to purchase the gun.
The PRO said the police were currently trying to locate the one who sold the gun to them in Kumasi. Meanwhile Annan and Billa are in police custody pending further investigations.